jet lag noun
Extreme tiredness and other physical effects felt by a person after a long flight across several time zones.
Excuse me when I say this, but my definition of jet-lag is -a b*#%h- yes that 5 letter naughty word, sorry it's true. Its been 10 days, which "they" say it takes the same number of days as hours in the time change to actually re-cooperate from the jet-lag. However, can that really be the same for a 10 month old? I.think.not.
You quickly learn, and from advice of others that have been there, that there is NO recipe for jet-lag, no true "cure" to get over it!! You just need to make it through the change, slowly and with patience. Which I did (most of the time), although there were definitely middle of the night frustrations when a certain somebody wanted to play from midnight until 4am and then sleep until noon!! Once we were well into the 10 day mark, and I was better rested from these middle of the night playdates, I started to set an alarm to wake Cayden and I up in the mornings to start getting us back on track, in addition I had to start waking him up from his LONG naps (which I secretly liked).
It's been 2 weeks since we've been back in Moscow and we have finally slept through the entire night, the night here that is!! Even though it still may be a 10pm bedtime and a 10am wake up, we eventually figured it out and both Cayden and I are back on our normal routine!! Yay!!
All of this started, with a ride on a jetplane....
What a trooper our little Cayden is, he was great on the long trip, and even though as frustrating and helpless as it can be getting over the jet-lag with a little one...he can't help the disruption of schedule but he mastered it like a pro!!
It was pretty hard to keep Cayden "low-key" during the middle of the night when he was wide awake and wanted to play...there was time in his walker and time in the bumbo watching his Baby Einstein videos to keep him entertained!!
Oh and there was some playing IN the dishwasher...
Extreme tiredness and other physical effects felt by a person after a long flight across several time zones.
Excuse me when I say this, but my definition of jet-lag is -a b*#%h- yes that 5 letter naughty word, sorry it's true. Its been 10 days, which "they" say it takes the same number of days as hours in the time change to actually re-cooperate from the jet-lag. However, can that really be the same for a 10 month old? I.think.not.
You quickly learn, and from advice of others that have been there, that there is NO recipe for jet-lag, no true "cure" to get over it!! You just need to make it through the change, slowly and with patience. Which I did (most of the time), although there were definitely middle of the night frustrations when a certain somebody wanted to play from midnight until 4am and then sleep until noon!! Once we were well into the 10 day mark, and I was better rested from these middle of the night playdates, I started to set an alarm to wake Cayden and I up in the mornings to start getting us back on track, in addition I had to start waking him up from his LONG naps (which I secretly liked).
It's been 2 weeks since we've been back in Moscow and we have finally slept through the entire night, the night here that is!! Even though it still may be a 10pm bedtime and a 10am wake up, we eventually figured it out and both Cayden and I are back on our normal routine!! Yay!!
All of this started, with a ride on a jetplane....
What a trooper our little Cayden is, he was great on the long trip, and even though as frustrating and helpless as it can be getting over the jet-lag with a little one...he can't help the disruption of schedule but he mastered it like a pro!!
It was pretty hard to keep Cayden "low-key" during the middle of the night when he was wide awake and wanted to play...there was time in his walker and time in the bumbo watching his Baby Einstein videos to keep him entertained!!
Oh and there was some playing IN the dishwasher...
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